University of Chittagong

University of Chittagong
The University of Chittagong (also known as Chittagong University, abbreviated as CU) is a public research university located in Hathazari, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest university in Bangladesh. It is also known for providing quality education to its students. Its campus is the largest among Bangladeshi universities.
History
Chittagong University was founded on 3 December 1965 by Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry in Chittagong City.
Facilities
Library
Chittagong University's collection of about 350,000 books, and over 40,000 bound journals is housed in a library built in 1990.
Chittagong University Museum
Chittagong University Museum was established in 1973 with artifacts from the History Department including fossils found amongst the Nasirabad hills. It has subsequently accumulated an extensive collection of historical artifacts and painting. In 2016, The Daily Star donated a Chittagong history archive to the museum.
University shuttle train
The university shuttle train is operated by Bangladesh Railway eastern division and monitored by university authority. Trains leave Chattogram railway station and Sholoshohor railway station, and city-bound trains leave Chattogram University railway station.
Shuttle graffiti
Chittagong University shuttle train have a long history of graffiti art but there were allegations it was being used by rival political groups to assert influence over train compartments. After April 2011 clashes between five compartment-based gangs left at least eight students injured, the university expelled 11 students and banned all types of compartment-based organisational activities, including sticking posters, leaflets and graffiti on the trains.
Eleven years after that incident, German artist Lukas Zeilinger, accompanied by Livia, his wife, and Arup Barua, a teacher at the Department of Dramatics of the university, painted the carriages once again. The project was self-funded by the Zeiligers as part of their art project.
Campus
Residential halls
, there are 14 residential halls at the university of which 9 (1 under construction) are for male and 5 (1 under construction) for female students.
Notable people
Faculty
Jamal Nazrul Islam, theoretical physicist and mathematician
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Prize winner
Abdul Mannan, chairman, University Grants Commission of Bangladesh
A F M Khalid Hossain, Islamic scholar
Humayun Azad, poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and former lecture of Bengali literature
Murtaja Baseer, painter and artist
Mohammad Shah Alam, chairman (acting) of Bangladesh Law Commission and founding father of Faculty of law, University of Chittagong, and former professor at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi
Monsur Ul Karim, painter
Syed Abdullah Khalid, sculptor and painter
Alumni
Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury, Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh.
Shireen Akhter, academic and vice chancellor.
Mohit Ul Alam, vice chancellor of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University.
Tahura Ali, politician and member of parliament.
Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury, academic and vice-chancellor.
A B M Mohiuddin Chowdhury Bangladeshi politician and former mayor of Chittagong.
Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury, former mayor of Chittagong and member of parliament.
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, politician and mayor of Chittagong
Annisul Huq, entrepreneur, television show host and first mayor of North Dhaka
Fazle Kabir, bureaucrat, economist and central banker
Kazi Sharif Kaikobad, major general in the Bangladesh Army
Hafiz Rashid Khan, postcolonialist poet, author, journalist and Adibaasi researcher
Hasan Mahmud, member of parliament and Minister of Information
Rashed Rouf, novelist, editor and journalist
Surendra Kumar Sinha, lawyer who served as the 21st Chief Justice of Bangladesh
AFM Solaiman Chowdhury, civil servant and chairman of the National Board of Revenue
Wadud Bhuiyan, politician and former member of parliament
Shahid Mahmud Jangi, lyricist
Naseem Ali Khan, singer
Syed Abdullah Khalid sculptor and painter
Papri Basu, freedom fighter, teacher, social worker and women's rights activist
Muhammad Masum Aziz, stage, film and television actor
Chitralekha Guho, television, stage and film actress
Partha Barua, singer and actor
Naquib Khan,singer, music composer, lyricist and director
Muhammad Abdul Bari, physicist, writer, teacher, and community leader
Gallery
See also
List of universities in Bangladesh
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1966
Public universities of Bangladesh
Forestry education
1966 establishments in East Pakistan